http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=16215
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| WorldCom, shortly to become MCI, has been given a contract worth $45 million in the short term to build a wireless phone network in Iraq. I learned via The Associated Press that Washington Technology, a trade newspaper that follows computing-related sales to the U.S. government, "found WorldCom jumped to eighth among all federal technology contractors in 2002, with $772 million in government sales." And that is only counting the deals in which WorldCom is the primary contractor. It is actually getting much more as a subcontractor. |
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| WorldCom got the Iraq contract without competitive bidding, to the anger of rival companies A&T, Sprint, etc., which actually have experience in building wireless networks, according to AP. A WorldCom spokesman "also stressed the company's deep, overall relationship with the U.S. military and government." |
And this is a company who just was involved in the biggest accounting fraud in this nations history.
